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...Allston residents developed the neighborhood’s stringent approval measures in the late eighties, and trust they will keep Harvard...
...game began with both teams playing stringent defense. Colgate broke onto the scoreboard first when senior attackman Ryan Asher tallied the first of his two goals in the game...
...presidential debates, Bush is gaining a great deal of support simply because public expectations were so minimal to begin with. The end of a president’s first 100 days is a traditional time for a thorough examination and evaluation of the newcomer. This should be no less stringent an investigation because the nation’s worst fears about our new president have not been realized. Bush should, as I am sure all would agree, be judged as harshly as any other president. In the wake of the apparent amorality of the Clinton years, Bush?...
...motives for donating blood. Yet when I roll up my sleeve and offer my arm they turn me away. “It’s the rules,” they say. But it is precisely those rules which are too poorly worded. The Red Cross has such stringent regulations (there was a whole long list before the England question) that many of the people who would gladly give blood are turned away—often under faulty reasoning. Perhaps instead of adding more and more “purification requirements” to its ever-growing list...
...order to keep ground beef safe, Donnelly stresses the importance of a sanitary preparation process. But, she says, "controls on the cooking end of things - like adhering to specific temperatures - can be shaky, so it's safer to have stringent controls throughout the entire production end of things...